Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-15

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Senator .Colquitf 81 Georgia smiles "a.
risively when any body talks about his
prospects for getting on the suprems
bench. s So sftsf
Two unpublished letters from Luther to
Brenz and Eve from Melancthon to the
Swabain reformer Rave been found insen
old desk ia q school at Heilbron.
| Peter Barlow, who took partin the Amer.
lean Revolution under Gen. Washington,
has died in Demarara, aged 40 years.
It i stated that the Boston Daily Ad.
vertiser and the Evening Record have been
sold to Charles T. Whitine Tor 500, 600.
Reports have just been received from
Idaho that q number OF Chinese mining
camps scattered along the Snake river,
Idaho have been raided, either by indiana
were known to be from fifty to sixty
Chinese miners on the Oregon side of the
Snake river some distance above Lewis,
ton, and from numerous mutiIated bodies
of Celestials that have hoated down stream
it is feared that the camps have been
wiped out.
Miss Rose Cleveland is in Pittsburg on a
| visit to old college friends. She attended a
! concert at Silver Lake park, and was ten.
dered quite an ovation.
Observation-Disclosures al convention is con.
sidering sections prohibiting bigamy and
poiygamy and claims that the Mormon
problem may by this means be solved.
John Feistbonne, who fatally stabbed
John Orkner in Chicago, committed suicide
on the death OF his victim.
The date for the official reception OF Gen.
| Lawton, minister to Austria, has not vet
been fixed. Meanwhile j. Feener Leeaharge
| d affaires, will conduct the business OF the
American legislation.
Jubilee higgins, the English plunger
recently lost $4,000 in two nights at
cards.
The proprietor OF a hotel at Clarendon,
Pa, is accused OF kindlins q fire that lays
| the town waste and burns a man to death.
! The fire loss was $35O,OOO.
In the house of lords Lord Salisbury an
nounced that sthe Anglo-Turkish conven-
ton in reference to Egypt had not been
ratified by Turkey, and that Wolff the
| special British commissioner, had been in.
structed to leave Constantinople.
! At Summerside P. E. l., Miss Taplin left
her home for the purpose OF meeting her
| seducer, William Millman. Her body was
found in the river.
The British ship Muskota, it is feared,
has been lost at sea with all on board
She left Sourabaya, Java, December Is,
and called at Banjoemanjie on New Years
day. Her destination was Queenstown.
She has not reached that port. She was
in command OF Captain Cutter, and had
crew OF 25 men, nearly all natives OF that
city. The Muskota hailed from st. J ohm,
! n. B. With her cargo she was valued at
$lOO, 600, only partly insured.
tits stated that Sara Bernhard invested
the greater part of her money realized by
her recent American tour in real property
in the United States.
Rider Haggard was very nervous and
bashful a public dinner in London the
other day, when he tried to speak.
The British government is defeated in
! the house OF commons on q minor issue,
and Home Secretary Matthews will resign
in consequence.
| The government receipts since July l
| amount to $5,477 ,6S4, and the expendi.
lures to $780,, 4s6, or $40, 089, So3 IN
excess ofthe receipts.
At Elgin, H., the butter tub factory OF
| Wood & Sherwin was burned. 1t was the
largest OF the kind in the state. Loss $780,
900; insurance, SIG, 900.
At Marquette, Mich, Gabriel Grohe was
knocked across q circular saw. His body
was cut in two from the left shoulder to
|
through the heart.
Grand Rapids, Mich, is greatly excited
over the arrest OF Gen. Louis w. Heath,
a we'll known citizen, on warrant issued
by Robert J. Walker, charging him with
! alternating the affections OF his wife. Wal
ker claims he discovered Gen. Heath and
Mrs. Walker in a compromising attitude.
Walker commenced proceedings in dam
age suit for $4,000. All the parties con-
cerned are well known and move in good
society.
| Oscar M. Kelly, who shot and killed his
wife at Mccoy, Oregon six weeks ago, was
and hanged. On first hearing the mob Kel-
i.ly broke his lamp and cut his throat, neck,
and wrists, ankles, and was rapidly bleeding
to deaf hwhen seized.
| Capt. John s. McNaught Twentieth in.
fantry, now on sick leave at Madison,
Wis, will be the next officer to appear be-
| fore the retiring board, OF which Gen.
/ Thomas II. Ruger is president.
William Bradburn, the Chicago pugilist,
| and John Joyce, champion of Ohio, have
signed an agreement to fight with hard
gloves to a finish for 81, 900 q side. The
mill will take place in six weeks, within
100 miles OF Pittsburg.
The strike in st. Paul, as far as the
|
ances q thing OF the past.
The rain recently extended over east
ern and central Minnesotaand northern
Wisconsin. Reports on the Manitoba road
show that it extended not over 1875 miles
! from St. Paul, and the Omaha reports
rain quite general on the Sioux City &
| Pacific division as far as Mankato and
in northern Wisconsin, where it was
heaviest. Railroad officials state that the
rain fell where it was most needed.
| Jno: Morley, speaking at Manchester,
says that Gladstone's home rule scheme
would likely become prominent again.
Edward Nuismer has been arrested at
Muskegon, Mich, for the murder OF his
father.
| Douglass, who was disbarred by the Sec
rotary OF the interior recently, is apractic-
ing attorney Of McGregor, Iowa. He Sc:
cured q pension 81 an old man named
Jacob Borden. in which the arrears
am ounted to about So, 900. When Bor-
den went to the bank to draw his money
Douglas went with him. Borden drew out
but $500, leaving the remainder on de-
post. He is badly para]yzed and, being
unable ~ count the money, Douglass took
the m oney and counted it over for him
and returned 500, and said that he de-
sired to borrow $500 He gave Borden q
| fixed at per cent, and in which were the
words mot to be paid at maturity" It
was by this means that Douglass hoped to
get around the law, which fixes his fee at
| $40. T. I - =. .z5E
At Oskaloosa, Iowa, Engineer John
Shoot and Fireman James Huckiski were
| fatally injured by tho explosion Of q boiler
in the Excelsior mine. The cause OF the
explosion is unknown. Iss "a s.ss%
| The following changes in the medical
staff Of the army are announced Capt.
&c. 4. Whine, assistant surgeon, from
| Benica Barracks to Fort Wadsworth,
N. Y, relieving Capt. v. Harvard, who is
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